| Saturday Night Contributor(s): Orlean, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1451660987 ISBN-13: 9781451660982 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $18.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Customs & Traditions |
| Dewey: 973.92 |
| LCCN: 2011293800 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.60 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From Susan Orlean, the bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and Rin Tin Tin, comes a new edition of her first book, a quirky classic of narrative journalism that offers an irresistible portrait of how Saturday night in America is lived--with a new Afterword by the author. Twenty years ago, before she wrote The Orchid Thief or was hailed as "a national treasure" by The Washington Post, Susan Orlean was a journalist with a question: What makes Saturday night so special? To answer it, she embarked on a remarkable journey across the country and spent the evening with all sorts of people in all sorts of places--hipsters in Los Angeles, car cruisers in small-town Indiana, coeds in Boston, the homeless in New York, a lounge band in Portland, quincea era revelers in Phoenix, and more--to chronicle the one night of the week when we do the things we want to do rather than the things we need to do. The result is an irresistible portrait of how Saturday night in America is lived that remains. |
Contributor Bio(s): Orlean, Susan: - Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award-winning film Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in upstate New York and may be reached at SusanOrlean.com and Twitter.com/SusanOrlean. |